Thursday March 30, 2023

Circle: When do you think you'll be an adult?

 Module 45

Module 47

I am...

Module 48

Module 49

Complete these for a quiz grade.  100 or 50.

SQ3R 534-538

SQ3R 540-547

SQ3R 550-553

SQ3R 555- 562

SQ3R 564- 571

Monday March 27, 2023

Circle Question: One thing you will do the same as a parent and one that you will do differently?

Target: Understanding Human Development

How does life develop before birth?
What are some newborn abilities, and how do researchers explore infants’ mental abilities?
During infancy and childhood, how do the brain and motor skills develop?
From the perspective of Piaget and today’s researchers, how does a child’s mind develop?
How do parent-infant attachment bonds form?
What physical changes mark adolescence?
How did Piaget, Kohlberg, and later researchers describe adolescent cognitive and moral development?
What are the social tasks and challenges of adolescence?
What is emerging adulthood?
What physical changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
How do memory and intelligence change with age?
What themes and influences mark our social journey from early adulthood to death?

Temperament Survey: Take the survey yourself and then give the other copy to your parent(s) and have the fill it out but ask them to fill it out for what your personality was like when you were two years old.  Then have a conversation about what has changed about your personality and what has remained the same.

Activity: Landmarks

Activity: Parenting Style

Homework: You should be reading the unit on Developmental Psychology in the Study Guide.  I would recommend reading the unit in the text book too if you want to supplement your knowledge.


Supplemental Video: Please 
Kohlberg's Six Steps to Morality
The Trolley Problem
Harlow's Monkeys
Harlow's Study on Monkeys' Attachment
The Strange Situation-Mary Ainsworth
Gender Roles
Crash Course: 19 Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course: 18  The Growth of Knowledge
Crash Course: 20 Adolescence
Inside the Teenage Brain

Note Cards:  Below is a list of terms that you will need to know for the AP Psych Exam.  These are due the day of the exam.  Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  

• Erik Erikson
• Carol Gilligan
• Harry Harlow
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Jean Piaget
• Lev Vygotsky
• Habituation
• Maturation
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Object permanence
• Conservation
• Egocentrism
• Attachment
• Imprinting
• Temperament
• Self-concept
• Gender role
• Gender identity
• Social identity

March 23, 2023

Thursday March 23, 2023 

Talk about reviewing for the exam:  11 CLASSES LEFT!!!

Circle: Did you feel better or worse about yourself after taking the IQ test?  

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Learning Target: Module 37 Introduction of Intelligence

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Learning Targets: Module 38 Assessing Intelligence

-Describe the characteristics of an intelligence test, and distinguish between achievement and aptitude tests.

-Discuss when and why intelligence tests were created, and explain how today's tests differ from early intelligence tests.

-Describe the normal curve, and explain standardization, reliability and validity.

Learning Targets : Module 39 The dynamics of intelligence

-Analyze how again affects crystalized and fluid intelligence.

-Define cross-sectional studies, and explain why it is important to know which method was used.

-Describe the stability of intelligence test scores over the lifespan.

-Discuss the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes.

Activity: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

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Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2.  Its go time!

Homework 228-245 in Princeton Guide.  This is the unit on Human Developement.  Take practice quiz on 243-244.  Please bring Princeton book to class for the remainder of the year.

Also please review pages 140-151 in Princeton Guide.  This is unit on the Biological Perspective.

Monday March 20, 2022

Monday March 20, 2023

Circle: Who is the most smartest person you know?  What makes the so intelligent?

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Learning Target: Module 37 Introduction of Intelligence

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Learning Targets: Module 38 Assessing Intelligence

-Describe the characteristics of an intelligence test, and distinguish between achievement and aptitude tests.

-Discuss when and why intelligence tests were created, and explain how today's tests differ from early intelligence tests.

-Describe the normal curve, and explain standardization, reliability and validity.

Learning Targets : Module 39 The dynamics of intelligence

-Analyze how again affects crystalized and fluid intelligence.

-Define cross-sectional studies, and explain why it is important to know which method was used.

-Describe the stability of intelligence test scores over the lifespan.

-Discuss the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes.

Activity: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Activity: You are smarter than some people and not as smart as others.  What does "smart" mean in this context?  Write down you answer first.

IQ TEST

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Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2.  Its go time!

Homework 218-223 in Princeton Guide.  Take practice quiz on 224.  Please bring Princeton book to class on Thursday this week.

Wednesday March 15, 2023

Homework Check

Circle: Every year our top students leave OHCHS and head off to college.  A lot go into nursing.  Why don't they go on to be doctors?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know.  Learning Targets  and Vocabulary

Activity: Look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best 

Homework for Monday: SQ3R 401-406

Homework for Wednesday: SQ3R 381-392

Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 2 part 1 and Unit 2 part 2

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Module 35

March 13, 2023

Monday March 13, 2023

Circle: A time you had a feeling (intuition) about something or someone and it turned out to be completely wrong.

Talk about Wednesday.  If we do have a remote day the homework that will be due on Monday, March, 20 will be to SQ3R 401-406

Homework for Wednesday: SQ3R 381-392

Homework Due: SQ3R pages 370-378 in textbook.  In addition START reviewing in your Princeton pages 114 to 121.  Don't worry about the names of psychologist and philosophers.  Only concentrate on the approaches starting on page 116.

Review Approaches from Princeton: Unit 1

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 

Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 

Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 

Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 

Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 

Module 35

Thursday March 9, 2023

Thursday March 9, 2023

Homework: SQ3R pages 370-378 in textbook.  In addition START reviewing in your Princeton pages 114 to 121.  Don't worry about the names of psychologist and philosophers.  Only concentrate on the approaches starting on page 116.

Circle: What activity are you looking forward to tomorrow?  Charades!!!

Module 32

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Module 33

Student Activity: M33: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M33: Memory of a Penny
Student Activity: M33: The Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon and Capital Cities 
Student Activity: M33: Retroactive and Proactive Interference
Student Activity: M33: Repression or Inadequate Retrieval Cues?
Student Activity: M33: Constructive Memory: The Rumor Chain
Student Activity: M33: Creating a False Memory
Student Activity: M33: Eyewitness Recall

Module 34

Monday March 6, 2023

Homework: Due Today SQ3R 365-368

AP Prep books

Circle: If you could start high school all over again what is one thing you would change?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?

March 2, 2023

Thursday March 2, 2023

Homework: Due Monday for a quiz grade???  SQ3R 365-368

Circle: If you could live in any imaginary world, which one would you live in?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

Review: Semantic Encoding Activity 

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?